Farmers from the North-West of Vietnam weighing their coffee to sell it © Thuan Sarzynski

Climate change needs high-quality coffee

I heard voices outside in the darkness of the night. People were dragging something on the ground. A quick look at my phone, it was 4 a.m. Still drunk, I fell back into slumber. Rain was drumming on the wooden roof.

In the morning, I realized farmers woke up at night to cover the coffee beans drying outside. Coffee cherries ripened early this year and harvest started in October. Farmers…